Cohort 2020 – 2022
and try following this account: https://www.instagram.com/photoshop.tutorials/ and neural filters! amazing! Following on from Serena’s masterclass, you will need to do some research for some tricks and techniques for using photoshop and indesign. Here is a link to a Youtube site, which offers tutorials on how to use Photoshop . Here is a slideshare withContinue reading Photoshop – basics
Here are some links for background ideas for the DP? Why not push yourself? Backgrounds x 30? Grunge effect? Splatters? Funky fonts?
Copyright Info © & Ⓟ Your name/band name, year. All rights of the produced and of the owner of the work reproduced reserved. Unauthorized copying, hiring, lending, public performance and broadcasting of this recording prohibited. You can use the publisher logo and barcode from the web. Use the digipak template in indesign or Mr Gregson’s in the P Drive. P:\DigipackContinue reading Copywrite and Template
We have been through the D drives of the computers in Room 71 to try and find your Lip Syncs and Montages. Here is a file with as many as we could trace. You need to upload them to the relevant posts to replace the ‘lost’ you tube videos. UPDATE THE BLOG LEAGUE ACCORDINGLY. ThisContinue reading Montage and Lip Sync – IMPORTANT BEFORE HALF TERM
This website has lots of ideas from artists and media makers around the world. It might just offer you some inspiration for your MES – remember simple but meaningful use of MES could make all the difference: some broken plates, antique books, a bright red balloon, tattered armchair, sleek hair do, interesting window frame, bright redContinue reading Photographic Inspiration
Key Terms: genre, star image, encoding, decoding, preferred readings (Hall’s theory), REPERTOIRE OF ELEMENTS (Altman’s theory), NARRATIVE, the same but different – developing, using conventions. Please use the next lesson(s) to produce a hand drawn mock up of the digipack you are going to make in the next 2 weeks. Collate the best ideas fromContinue reading Hand Drawn or Photographic mock up
KEY TERMS: repertoire of elements, blueprint, convey, suggest, represent, show, highlight, infers, highlights, technical conventions/forms (barcode, copywrite, tracks etc) etc, denotations, connotations, star image, genre. Explore how digipacks are designed to work as part of a multimedia package to support the launch of a new album. Media Form & Conventions Key questions to consider onContinue reading Textual Analysis of Genre, Star Image and Formal / Technical Conventions of a digipak
Key Terms: style, brand, inspiration, integrated advertising, genre, repertoire of elements, blueprint, audience. Task: As a group, contribute to the overall moodboard for all the ideas, styles, fonts, images, colours that could and should be appropriate to your ‘package’. You should all contribute @ 10 images each so that the tablet moodboard has about 20Continue reading A Look Book – Branding
Here is a link to the spreadsheet. Please ensure that you email the allocated students for their feedback. Please avoid – ‘yeah it’s sick man’ and instead, give constructive criticism relating to the following assessment criteria. Remember you are looking for the following: Excellent Level 4 Proficient Level 3 Basic Level 2 Minimal LevelContinue reading Peer Review – Draft 3
Assessment Criteria: What specific / measurable features make a good music video? Technical skill / competency Using, developing, subverting conventions of the media form Click here for full details of how we will assess your video. Find a video you like in the playlist below, preferably similar to the video you are making in termsContinue reading Self Assessment – Previous Students’ Work